About the Work

Tyla is an American artist from Ohio. The work is mainly about experiences with the landscape. It is photography-based but occasionally includes moving image and painting. Her practice is about exploring different perspectives on the natural world. The photographs try to establish a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its conceiver. The connection is, more often than not, about personal memories and emotions that come forth because of the scenery. She focuses on questions that determine our relationship with nature and attempts to answer those questions through her photographs.
Education 
2012 - 2016 BA Studio Art concentration in Photography and minor in Arts Administration, Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio 
​​​2017 - 2018 Masters of Letters in Fine Art Practice (Photography and the Moving Image), Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Exhibitions
2014:
  • Photography and Integrated Digital Media Show, Otterbein University Student Gallery, Westerville, Ohio
2015:
  • Photography and Integrated Digital Media Show, Otterbein University Student Gallery, Westerville, Ohio
  • Otterbein University Annual Juried Student Show: Juried by Brandon Briggs, The Miller Gallery, Westerville Ohio​
2016:
  • Otterbein University Annual Juried Student Show: Juried by Larry W. Collins, The Miller Gallery, Westerville, Ohio
  • Valediction: A Senior Exhibition, The Miller Gallery, Westerville, Ohio 
  • Photography and Integrated Digital Media Show, Otterbein University Student Gallery, Westerville, Ohio
  • Cartographies: Reconstructing Human Displacement, Fisher Gallery, Westerville, Ohio (Collaboration with Juan Si Gonzalez) 
2017:
  • ​Fragmented Memory (Residency Exhibition with Jennifer Hall Overholser), The Miller Gallery, Westerville, Ohio
  • Fear of White Walls: WIP by M.Litt Photography and Moving Image, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, Scotland
2018:
  • Windows Vista, Glasgow Why Arts Festival, 10 Dalhousie Street, Glasgow, Scotland 
  • GSA Graduate Degree Show, Tontine Building, Glasgow, Scotland 
  • Tenth Annual Ten x Ten - Small Works Exhibition, Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS
  • We are together because...(Fling Exhibition), The Vacant Space, Glasgow, Scotland
Awards/Accomplishments  
2016:
  • Ohio Art League (OAL) 2016 Membership Award, Lake Erie #4
  • Aegis Cover Art Competition, Lake Erie #2
Residencies/Internships
2015
  • Photography Intern for the City of Westerville, Ohio
2016-2017
  • Otterbein Artist in Residence, Westerville, Ohio 
Collections
  • Otterbein University Permanent Art Collection, Westerville, Ohio, Lake Erie #2
Member of the Following Organizations
  • Ohio Art League, Joined 2016
  • ROY G BIV Gallery, Joined 2018